Auction 487/round/2
BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Sep 22, 2020
Italy
Via Pontaccio 12, 20121 Milano
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Auction 487
22 September 2020
II session - 3.30 pm, from lot 135 to lot 270
Venue: Via Pontaccio 12, Milano
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LOT 212:
HOMANN, Johann Baptist (1663-1724) - Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia. Nuremberg: Johann Baptist Homann ...
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Sold for: €4,000
Start price:
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2,800
Estimated price:
€3,000 - €5,000
Auction house commission:
25%
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HOMANN, Johann Baptist (1663-1724) - Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia. Nuremberg: Johann Baptist Homann, [c.1730-1740]. A copy in contemporary colouring of this atlas by Homann. Among the most important maps are the worldmap and the maps of the four continents. Folio (545 x 330mm). Allegorical title, printed title and 36 engraved plates, including two tables at end, all in contemporary colouring (later guards, sometimes reinforced, 18th plate slightly shorter at bottom margin, some repaired tears and restorations including in the margins of title and final leaf). Contemporary calf, title in blind (rebacked and restored). Provenance: Greek ownership inscription dated 1753 on endpaper.
